I am disturbed that a judge has refused to block a plan to shoot more than 10,000 double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River estuary. The plan was released earlier this year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop cormorants from eating millions of baby salmon. The plan also calls for destroying 26,000 nests on East Sand Island.
We’ve interfered with the natural order by overfishing and are trying to hold on to what was here before we did that. In my opinion, we need to take responsibility for destroying water quality and availability by understanding that a natural consequence is less fish for us, not continued annihilation of competing species, whose true niche in the overall environment we can’t really understand.
Are you willing to eat only farmed fish to support other (innocent) species’ continued existence?
Linda Hayden
Vancouver
